Wisconsin gives progressives something to build on (utterly clueless)

WaPo ^ | 6/5/12 | vanden Heuvel

[pabianice]

On Tuesday, all eyes will be watching to see whether Wisconsin voters will keep labor-bashing right-winger Scott Walker (R) in the governor’s mansion. But win or lose, the real story is the 15 months of people power leading up to this day. The real lesson lies in more than a year of progressive organizing, petitioning, canvassing and campaigning for the cause. The real result is a progressive movement that is deeper and broader than before.

When Walker’s opponents needed 540,208 signatures to trigger the recall election, Wisconsin’s progressives responded by collecting more than a million. They filled 152,000 pages — weighty evidence of the power of a group of people determined to right a wrong.

And the effects have rippled outward. The sight of 70,000 protesters — teachers, firefighters, nurses, students, parents with children – occupying the Wisconsin State Capitol in February 2011 ignited activists around the country. Just as the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt motivated people around the world, including in Wisconsin, the occupation of the Madison statehouse helped inspire the occupation of Wall Street a few months later.

[Pining_4_TX]

Don’t think they will try anything like that in Oklahoma. :-)

[MaxMax]

In the liberal world there are no loosers
Until the other guy looses, then they make sure
everyone knows they won. Ahhhh Utopia.

[justiceseeker93]

We're all aware that The Nation is a publication with a sordid history of leftist journalism.

You might say that Ms. vanden Heuvel is a fitting heiress to the leftist legacy of The Nation, but the historical events you describe preceded her time there as editor, which began c. 1995.

I don't like her politics any more than you do, but you can't link her fairly to things that happened before she arrived.

BTW, speaking of hypocrisy, The Nation, like almost all of the lefty media organs, operates on a capitalist, profit motive organizational model while editorially bashing the essence of what they are.

[Brown Deer]

http://www.punditpress.com/2012/06/union-democrat-voter-fraud-explode-in.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[1010RD]

labor-bashing

That's the hyperbolic lie underlying the entire public union debate. Illinois is laying people off. Wisconsin is adding people to the work rolls.

The union is stating pay us by law more than the market would so the few can leech off the many. Walker said, "No."

[1010RD]

That’s like any liberal - chopping at his feet because his head’s held too high.